Governance and statehood
CULTIVATE: Food Sharing Calculator and Report
On Friday 10 April, Foundation contributors Jonathan Hankins and Cristina Grasseni participated in a workshop to test the CULTIVATE Food Sharing Calculator. The event also saw the launch of the Costs and Benefits of Food Sharing in Utrecht publication, the third in a series that includes similar reports about Barcelona and Milan. Cultivate is a ... CULTIVATE: Food Sharing Calculator and Report
2026 5min
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Peter B. Kaufman at Internet Archive Europe
On Friday 5th March, Cristina Grasseni and Myself accepted an invitation from long-time friends of the Foundation Jeff Ubois and Smiljana Antonijevic to attend a book talk with Peter B. Kaufman at the Internet Archive Europe in Amsterdam, of which Jeff is a Board Member. Internet Archive Europe has been preserving European digital materials since ... Peter B. Kaufman at Internet Archive Europe
2026 2min
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Looking Back over 2025
A Year of Celebration 2025 was a year of great celebration at the Bassetti Foundation, as President Piero Bassetti was awarded the 22nd International Vittorino Colombo Award, the Foundation opened its Digital Documentation Centre and developed its Metaverse! Vittorino Colombo Prize The Vittorino Colombo Prize which bears the name of the late President of the ... Looking Back over 2025
2026 6min
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Workshop: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
On Wednesday 12 November 2025, the Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness Workshop was held at Utrecht University and online. The workshop launched the Follow the Food Signature Project which critically examines if and how GIs can be used as tools for promoting fairness and sustainability in the global food system. In his introduction ... Workshop: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
2025 15min
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Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness: Online Workshop
On Wednesday 12 November 2025 between 11:00 to 13:00, the โ๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐: ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌโ project will host their first online/in-person public event.ย This interactive workshop launches the Follow the Food Signature Project, which critically examines if and how GIs can be used as tools for promoting fairness and sustainability in ... Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness: Online Workshop
2025 2min
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Development Aid and Geographical Indications
On Wednesday 11 September 2025, Martijn Huysmansโ (Utrecht University, School of Economics) presented From Champagne to Kampot pepper: EU development aid to export the idea of Geographical Indications, as part of the Utrecht University Applied Economics seminar series. The speaker is Principal Investigator of the Utrecht University โFollow the food: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability ... Development Aid and Geographical Indications
2025 4min
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Artificial Intelligence in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
To celebrate the release of the Bassetti Foundation White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, Jonathan Hankins reviews several recent Journal of Responsible Innovation articles that address the topic of AI from different perspectives and points of view. In A systemic perspective on bridging the principles to-practice gap in creating ethical artificial intelligence solutionsย โ a critique of ... Artificial Intelligence in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
2025 6min
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Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh
Follow the Food Seminar 3. Geographical Indications and Coffee in Indonesia: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh The third Follow the Food seminar was held on 11 December at the Utrecht University Future Food Conference. This yearโs conference theme was food democracy, and raised several questions that are closely tied to ... Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh
2025 5min
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Looking Back on 2024
IN MEMORY OF ANDREINA BASSETTI Through her profound civic spirit, Andreina Rocca Bassetti gained esteem and affection from all of those who had the pleasure to meet her. The work of the Bassetti Foundation (which she co-founded with her brother Piero Bassetti) is both a reflection and result of her dedication, and we endeavor to ... Looking Back on 2024
2025 5min
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New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness
Long-time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently presented a paper at the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) conference in Barcelona, held between 18-26 July. ย The conference theme was ‘Doing and Undoing with Anthropology’, with Grasseni participating in a full-day panel entitled New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness convened by Joost ... New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness
2024 9min
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The more the metaverse advances, the more our human side emerges
Dialogue with Marco Centorrino and Josephine Condemi What if the arrival of the metaverse helped us all (or almost all of us) to become more human? This โcounter-currentโ question lingers after meeting experts in the human aspect of the metaverse and its impact on society: Marco Centorrino, Professor in the Sociology of Communication (who has ... The more the metaverse advances, the more our human side emerges
2024 7min
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Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference
Conference Theme: Making and doing transformations In July I attended the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). This (the 11th quadrennialย joint conference) was hosted by theย Athena Instituteย at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). EASST is the European Association for ... Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference
2024 7min
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